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Win or lose, triumph or heartbreak, Maple Leafs head coach Randy Carlyle demands that his team leave the game at the rink and immediately start looking ahead to the next assignment.

So, just as they put aside Wednesday’s excruciating overtime loss at home, the focus for the Maple Leafs on what surely would have been a cheery charter ride home was on Sunday night’s Game 6 at the Air Canada Centre.

“I think we really have to make sure that our preparation is proper and we’ve already spoken to them about that game after (Friday’s) game,” Carlyle said.

“We have to make sure that we do all the right things between now and the faceoff Sunday night.

“It’s of vast importance that we take care of every little thing that we can physically. And mentally might be just as difficult.

“We were in a situation where we had to win a game on the road and I’m sure that we’ve poked the Bruins. They’re going to be a desperate hockey club come Sunday night and we’ve got to be equally as desperate.”

A TURNOVER TURNAROUND

BOSTON — All series long, the Maple Leafs had been hearing how sloppiness and turnovers had been killing them.

In Game 5, the form reversed. This time it was glaring Bruins mistakes that helped decide the outcome.

The first saw Tyler Bozak tip a puck past Andrew Ference to set up a short-handed breakaway goal. And on the second, it was Clarke MacArthur’s turn to do the swiping as he too went in alone to bury what turned out to be the game winner.

“They are a team that doesn’t make a lot of mistakes,” MacArthur said. “If you get lucky enough to make a few opportunities like that, it’s nice to be able to put them in.”

As much as the Leafs were thrilled to force a Game 6, MacArthur knows the heavy lifting is just beginning.

“ Games 6 and 7, that’s where it’s going to be a man’s game,” he said.

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Win or lose, triumph or heartbreak, Maple Leafs head coach Randy Carlyle demands that his team leave the game at the rink and immediately start looking ahead to the next assignment.

So, just as they put aside Wednesday’s excruciating overtime loss at home, the focus for the Maple Leafs on what surely would have been a cheery charter ride home was on Sunday night’s Game 6 at the Air Canada Centre.

“I think we really have to make sure that our preparation is proper and we’ve already spoken to them about that game after (Friday’s) game,” Carlyle said.

“We have to make sure that we do all the right things between now and the faceoff Sunday night.

“It’s of vast importance that we take care of every little thing that we can physically. And mentally might be just as difficult.

“We were in a situation where we had to win a game on the road and I’m sure that we’ve poked the Bruins. They’re going to be a desperate hockey club